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Trump wants the Epstein files to go away. That doesn't seem likely.

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28.04.2026

President Donald Trump's televised tantrum during his April 26 interview with "60 Minutes" on CBS News – which aired a day after he was rushed from an event after it was crashed by a gunman – revealed the obvious fear he still holds about the Epstein files.

Those more than 6 million documents potentially detail the life and crimes of his former friend, the now-dead registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

I think we'll see more of that fear and more tantrums from Trump as the push for transparency with the Epstein files intensifies, since only about half of them have been released.

Katie Phang, a former prosecutor who now works as an independent journalist, sued the Department of Justice on April 27, asking a federal judge to appoint a special master to review and release more Epstein files.

That lawsuit landed just four days after the DOJ's own inspector general informed several senators that it had launched an audit to see if the department had complied with a law requiring the release of the Epstein files.

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